The inspiration for Linus Torvalds' Linux operating system was the MINIX OS authored by Vrije Universiteit computer science professor and ACM Fellow Dr. Andrew Tanenbaum, who is visiting Linux Australia's linux.conf.au to discuss designing reliable OSes and to introduce the new LF (Lifetime Failures) metric, which represents how many times the software has crashed in the user's lifetime.
Not only did the electronics industry gain an understanding of the significance of multicore technology in 2006, but it realized just how much work is yet to be done.
How many hurdles do project teams have to clear before their embedded systems are truly complete? Let us count the ways. read more
Is embedded Linux dead?
Jack points out , that the embedded Linux hype might be over. The surveys by embedded.com and linuxdevices.com on the use of embedded operating systems are quite interesting.
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